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Quotes by Dramatist

"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."

"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."


"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly."

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."

"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."

"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."

"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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